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<p>Richardpitt: </p> <hr /> <div>Although I don't do system administration as my main activity, I do enough of it, and have done for so long, that many people think that's all I do.<br /> <br /> In reality I'm a marketing and sales manager at heart but my major customer base in the past several years has been centered around active web sites - Web 2.0 - lead primarily by Geeklog and phpBB but including a number of other facilities, all of which are open source.<br /> <br /> You'll find my business at [http://www.pacdat.net www.pacdat.net], my personal info at [http://richard.pacdat.net richard.pacdat.net], my blog at [http://blog.pacdat.net blog.pacdat.net]<br /> <br /> I've run my own servers since long before the internet rose to public fame - and continue to do so today. On them are a small number of low-profile clients and an even smaller number of fairly high-profile ones (those with hundreds of thousands to millions of page-views/month). All are Linux, although I've been known to use Windows Media Server for its very specific facilities only.<br /> <br /> Today I'm dealing a lot with multi-media and very much with user-generated content. Some of the sites have thousands of members with a tremendous amount of activity daily.<br /> <br /> In general I'm of the &quot;if it ain't broke, don't fix it&quot; philosophy - and tend to have fewer rather than more features turned on to keep things simple. I have several co-administrators culled from the masses of members as well as a cadre of moderators found and trained in the same way.<br /> <br /> I have (sole) root authority over the machines the sites are hosted on, and don't use system helpers such as cpanel or Plesk. The command line is my workbench.<br /> <br /> My own workstation has 5 monitors on it and is an AMD phenom quad-core. The system could take 4 PCI-X (dual-head) video cards but only has 3 at this time :)<br /> I have so many other computers in the house that the local building inspectors once thought I had a grow-op due to the amount of electricity I use. These mostly contain video archives from the live streaming eagle nest cameras from the Hancock Wildlife Foundation, an organization I helped found with my good friend David Hancock, when this strange phenomenum of watching eagles raise their young took off in 2006.</div>

Richardpitt http://gwiki3.thatlinuxbox.com/index.php?title=User:Richardpitt&diff=5238 2009-05-09T16:46:54Z

<p>Richardpitt: New page: Although I don't do system administration as my main activity, I do enough of it, and have done for so long, that many people think that's all I do. In reality I'm a marketing and sales m...</p> <hr /> <div>Although I don't do system administration as my main activity, I do enough of it, and have done for so long, that many people think that's all I do.<br /> <br /> In reality I'm a marketing and sales manager at heart but my major customer base in the past several years has been centered around active web sites - Web 2.0 - lead primarily by Geeklog and phpBB but including a number of other facilities, all of which are open source.<br /> <br /> You'll find my business at [http://www.pacdat.net www.pacdat.net], my personal info at [http://richard.pacdat.net richard.pacdat.net], my blog at [http://blog.pacdat.net blog.pacdat.net]</div>

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